This December, the CEDAR team is pleased to welcome Sacha Altay, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Digital Democracy Lab, University of Zurich. Sacha will be presenting his work on misinformation. The seminar will take place on December 10th in the Grace Hopper Meeting Room (Alan Turing Building, Palaiseau) and online here.
Title:
Rethinking the problem of misinformation
Bio:
Sacha is a postdoctoral research fellow working on misinformation, trust, and social media in the Digital Democracy Lab at the University of Zurich. Sacha studies irrational beliefs and why, despite people’s socio-cognitive abilities to resist misinformation, some false beliefs are widespread. Sacha holds a PhD in experimental psychology from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and did a postdoc at the Reuters Institute in Oxford. For more info: https://sites.google.com/view/sacha-altay/home
